final image

this is the image i actually used for my final image, i went through colours i wanted to use and put them to the side of the image using the brush tool in a seperate layer under the line art so i wouldnt mess up the line art. i chose red as the base body colour, because i thought it looked right, to put the colour down i just enlarged the brush size and went along colouring the entire body and after any bits that went over the lines went along the edges of the line art with the rubber tool and rubbed them out. after colouring the body i coloured the hair with a smaller brush and carefully put the colour in trying not to go over the lines, after which i put in the under body colour with a slightly larger brush, first outlining where the under belly stopped. after getting the basic colours in i started going around the areas with a slight darker version of the original colours and showing where the shadows were with the brush tool but on a very small setting and also did the same with the hair choosing where the hair would be darker. after doing all of this i went over the line art layer with the rubber tool just touching up the lines and doing the same with the colour layer.

After finishing the colouring, i looked at it and felt that it could do with something more so i decided to put some different coloured tattoos on the character in a seperate layer inbetween the colour and line art, the tattoo designs are just completly random and i just sketched out one part of each one and kept going till i liked it.